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Simulating Solutions: The Power of Computational Chemistry

“When we’re working on computations, it’s not one variable, it’s millions,” he says. “On machine learning, we’ve discovered that the machine has figured out the kind of molecule we were…

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Strategically Manipulating Bacteria for the Greater good

Peña-Castillo’s research, which she describes as being computational microbiology, applies machine learning to understand patterns in the genome of bacteria that signal to them how to “turn on”…

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What Drives Galaxy Evolution?

“We take the images of millions of galaxies and we quantify their appearance,” she says. “We measure their size, shape, how squished they are and we compare that to how many stars they’re…

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Predicting the Future of Fisheries

Bradbury is building a baseline or map of genetic variation in Arctic char. His projections suggest that the Arctic char’s range will start moving north, meaning the southern portion of Labrador…

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Cracking Cannabis Codes

David Joly studies the interaction between plants and micro-organisms. “We are looking at what genes make plants more resistant to disease and what genes make them more susceptible,” explains…

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Getting to Zet-Zero

Andrew MacDougall uses climate models to represent various climate change solutions to determine how many tons of carbon a given solution will take out of the air. He also does a lot of work on…

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Making Generative AI Sound More Human

“Deep learning inherits a lot of ideas from classical statistical methods. We’re looking at those connections and then mapping them out, which we hope will lead to insights about how to use all…

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Record Use for UPEI!

Physicist James Polson wanted to tackle a computational project inspired by a collection of experiments done a few years ago by a research group at McGill University. He knew the project would be…

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Probing the Infinitesimally Small with Laser Pulses

Samira Barmaki and her team at the computational and photonic physics laboratory create simulations to help find ways to control the way electrons leave atoms and the amount of energy they will…

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Using Modelling to Make Energy Use More Efficient

Kush Bubbar leads the Sys-MoDEL lab at the University of New Brunswick, with a mission is to understand complex systems and present clients with feasible, yet optimal solutions to address their…

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In Search of Apple Perfection

Zoë Migicovsky works magic by combining genetic data from fruit crops and agriculturally important trait information about the plants and then analyzing the data so plant breeders can make…

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Persuasive Computing for Social Good

Rita Orji designs persuasive technologies to help people achieve desired changes in their behaviour, integrating modern technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality into the apps…

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Building Better Brain Imaging Analysis Tools

Erin Mazerolle uses brain imaging to try to do a better job of understanding and diagnosing neurological diseases, and to take really advanced cutting-edge research imaging techniques and apply them…

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Timing Travel with Precision

Davod Hosseini at Saint Mary's University leverages Operations Research to optimize routing, scheduling and vehicle assignment in two types of transportation systems — regular systems, in which he…

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Mining Data to Mine Metals, Among Other Things

Geophysicist and professor Colin Farquharson has the key to determining how deep down a mineral deposit might be without digging a hole. The professor at Memorial University’s Department of Earth…

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Putting the Stars in Perspective

Catherine Lovekin’s main research is dedicated to understanding the heat-transfer process in stars. In particular, she studies the “convective overshoot” where the circular currents that exist…

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Supercomputers at the Frontline of Climate-Resilient Forests

Om Rajora analyzes the genes, gene expression, and metabolic pathways of trees under ambient and changing climate conditions. This in turn gives hints to how forests respond to environmental changes.

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From Megabytes to Megafauna: Driving Whale Conservation to New Depths with High Performance Computing

Tim Frasier, biology professor at Saint Mary's University, studies genetic variations in whale populations to fuel conservation efforts using high performance computing.

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Artificial Intelligence to Improve Human-System Interaction

Sid Ahmed Selouani's lab uses AI to advance human-system interaction, working on subjects as diverse as emotion, pathological speech and language recognition, telepathology automation and intelligent…

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Machine Learning: Connecting the Brain to the Body

Xianta Jiang uses machine learning and wearable-sensor technology to study how the brain works in telling the body what to do and how to move.

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L'Intelligence Artificielle au service de l'interaction humain-système

Sid Ahmed Selouani utilise l'apprentissage automatique pour faire progresser l'interaction humain-système, avec des sujets aussi variés que la reconnaissance des émotions, de la parole pathologique…

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Preventing Freezer Burn and Saving Human Tissue

Early studies show preserving lobster meat with a cryoprotectant tastes better than frozen lobster meat currently sold.

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Quantum Chemistry of Molecular Evolution

Ph.D. candidate Lázaro A. M. Castanedo and his adviser Chérif F. Matta are trying to answer one of the fundamental questions of molecular evolution: Why did nature pick the particular DNA structure…

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Making Data Meaningful

Trishla Shah’s research can involve everything from mental health to contaminated water, but always, it involves computing and building models to analyze relevant data

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Preparing for Climate Change’s Effects with Geophysics

As climate change causes ever increasing fears of flooding, Dr. Peter Lelievre’s work in geophysical imaging becomes ever more important in the province of New Brunswick and beyond

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Digitizing History

Josh MacFadyen is an associate professor in the Applied Communication, Leadership and Culture (ACLC) program at the University of Prince Edward Island and a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in…

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A Prize-Winning User

Dalhousie chemistry professor and Steacie prize winner Dr. Erin Johnson uses hundreds of thousands of compute days to study intermolecular interactions within materials to predict such properties as…

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Curbing COVID with Computers

James Hughes (St. FX University, Computer Science) has used “hundreds and hundreds” of hours of Compute Canada’s resources to, for example, predict inter-cranial pressure from traumatic…

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Improving the Flow of COVID-19 Screening with X-rays and AI

Moulay Akhloufi (l’Université de Moncton, Computer Science) uses ACENET and Compute Canada’s computing power to help develop algorithms that mimic the human brain and learn by example, most…

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Curbing Sea Lice in Salmon Farming

The work of Gregor McEwan (Atlantic Veterinary College) may prompt the headline “Supercomputer versus Tiny Pest.” With ACENET, he economically builds simulations to learn how salmon farmers can…

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Capturing Excess Heat as a New Energy Source

With ACENET’s computers, Jesse Maassen (Dalhousie University, Physics and Atmospheric Science) builds quantum-mechanics simulations to learn what controls electron and heat flow in new and existing…

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Saving the Planet Through Marine Propeller Excellence

Wei Qiu (Memorial University, Marine Hydrodynamics) wants all ship passengers to have a good night’s sleep, so he uses ACENET’s resources to build methods of computational fluid dynamics to study…

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Creating a Non-linear Model of our Non-linear Brains

James Hughes (St. FX University, Computer Science) calls the brain a non-linear computational system that’s been studied with linear algorithms and math. He uses the resources of Compute Canada and…

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Stimulating Startups While Educating Students

Pawan Lingras (St. Mary’s University, Computing and Data Analytics) uses ACENET’s resources to process massive amounts of data and form intelligent conclusions for corporations — for example, to…

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Bringing Communities Together Through Music

Marcia Ostashewski (Cape Breton University, Ethnomusicology) uses ACENET’s computers and training to build a portal and archive of Cape Breton’s historical cultural contributions from Eastern and…

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Recasting Residue Into Power

Kelly Hawboldt (Memorial University, Chemical Engineering) uses ACENET’s computers to study how to convert biomass residue from Atlantic Canada’s forest and fishery sectors into valuable…

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Bringing Literature to Life in the Digital Humanities

Kate Scarth (University of Prince Edward Island, Digital Humanities) uses ACENET’s cloud services and technical expertise to build Halifax Literary Landmarks, an interactive, public website with…

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Decoding the Human Brain

Jacob Levman (St. FX University, Biomedical Engineering) uses ACENET and Compute Canada computer clusters and training programs to help his students analyze how the brain develops in children with…

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A Crusade to Protect Crustaceans Against Climate Change

Fraser Clark (Dalhousie University, Animal Science and Aquaculture) uses Compute Canada’s GenAp Galaxy web portal application to sequence transcriptomes in crustaceans and compare immune genes in…

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New Brunswick Researcher Breaking New Statistical Ground

Connie Stewart (University of New Brunswick, Statistics) uses ACENET and Compute Canada computers to run simulations for new statistical methods that have many uses, such as to assess the diet of…

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High Powered Computing Helps in Brain Analysis

Christine Lackner (Mount St. Vincent University, Child and Adolescent Brain Development) uses ACENET and Compute Canada computers to store and analyze massive files created as she studies how the…

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Understanding Polymers

James Polson (University of Prince Edward Island, Physics) uses ACENET’s computer network to create virtual models of polymer molecules in various conditions, the better understanding of which will…

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Outsmarting Superbugs

Matthias Bierenstiel (Cape Breton University, Inorganic Chemistry) uses ACENET’s power to synthesize new transition metal complexes — complex molecules that contain antimicrobial properties that…

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Studying the Duplication of Genes

Denise Clark (University of New Brunswick, Genetics) uses ACENET’s computers and specialized tools to analyze the enormous genome files of tiny fruit flies, in the search for genetic duplications…

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The Secrets of Birds

Dr. Mark Mallory (Acadia University, Biology) uses Doppler triangulation on ACENET’s network to compare migratory movements of herring gulls in different regions, from Nunavut to the Great Lakes to…

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Understanding Greenhouse Gases

Karine Le Bris (St. FX Universities, Physics) uses ACENET’s computer power in research into new optical detection techniques and the characterization of greenhouse gases - work that can help to…

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New Technology For Ancient Texts

Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University, Humanities) is using ACENET’s network to create open-source optical character recognition software that can read texts written in ancient Greek, using his…

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Designing New Molecules

Jason Masuda (St. Mary’s University, Chemistry) uses ACENET and the software program Gaussian09 to group atoms into a stable configuration and create molecules, ideally physical compounds with…

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Developing New Products at the Molecular Level

Erika Merschrod (Memorial University, Chemistry and Materials Science) says ACENET is useful even to scientists with no computing background. She uses it to design large molecules with complex…

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Deciphering the Role of the Invisible Marine Life

Julie LaRoche (Dalhousie University, Biology and Ocean Science) uses ACENET to analyze data on how climate change and swings in temperature and pH affect the diversity and function of ocean microbes,…

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Careers in Computational Oceanography

Katja Fennel (Dalhousie University, Oceanography) founded the Marine Environmental Modelling Group. Her group uses ACENET computers to model ocean conditions for locations around the world, running…

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The Physics of Fox Movement in Complex Landscapes

Sheldon Opps (University of Prince Edward Island, Physics) applies his statistical physics training and ACENET computers to study the movements of foxes in urban environments, such as Charlottetown,…

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Software Tools for Scientific Researchers

Paul Muir (St. Mary’s University, Mathematics and Computer Science) has used ACENET’s resources and Data Cave to help develop software programs that allow scientists in various fields without…

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Exploring the World of Nanoparticles

Martin Mkandawire (Cape Breton University, Chemistry) uses the ACENET network to run complex algorithms in his research on the properties of nanoparticles, which has potential for breakthroughs in…

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Making Molecules Dance

Khashayar Ghandi (Mount Allison University, Chemistry) wants to develop cost-effective green energy. He uses ACENET computers to build chemical reaction models of, for example: the conversion of…

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Mining William Blake

Jon Saklofske (Acadia University, English) uses ACENET’s computers to add power to NewRadial, his unique tool to help scholars conduct and share research online, and to improve search parameters in…

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The Mathematics of a Bumpy Ride

Jahrul Alam (Memorial University, Mathematics) uses ACENET and “adaptive wavelet large eddy simulation” to research the complex causes of air turbulence, which has implications for structural…

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Taking the Earth’s Temperature

Hugo Beltrami (St. FX University, Environmental Sciences) uses ACENET’s computers to run numerical modelling of geothermal data from mining exploration boreholes to determine changes in surface…

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Freud, Joyce and the Power of Big Data

David Clark (NSCAD, Media Arts) used ACENET sponsorship and technical advice to produce Michael MacKenzie’s Unconscious in the Sistine Chapel, a play about big data that uses big data to build a…

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Charting the Mechanics of Human Aging

Andrew Rutenberg (Dalhousie University, Physics) applies his physics training to biology, modelling the biological effects of aging on humans by creating conditions that affect health and well-being…

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Developing Artificial Lung Surfactant

Valerie Booth (Memorial University, Biochemistry) runs simulations on Compute Canada’s computers to unlock the molecular structures of proteins in natural lung surfactant, which could allow her and…

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Oil Sands Upgrading Methodogies

Kai Ylijoki (Saint Mary’s University, Chemistry) uses the resources of ACENET and Compute Canada to study how catalysts could make the extraction of high bitumen from Alberta’s Oil Sands — the…

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Pushing the Envelope (or Molecule) with Quantum Chemistry

On ACENET computers, Dr. Jason Pearson (University of Prince Edward Island, Chemistry) develops algorithms to study molecular behaviour on the electronic level and to predict interaction with other…

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Why Materials Do the Things They Do

Dr. Geoffrey Lee-Dadswell (Cape Breton University, Theoretical Physics) uses ACENET’s computers to run models to better understand Fourier’s law of heat conduction, especially on the nano scale,…

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New Tools For Designing Safer Chemical Catalysts

Dr. Ghislain Deslongchamps (University of New Brunswick, Chemistry) uses ACENET’s computers to adapt computational chemistry tools used in drug design to discover new organocatalysts, which can be…

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Edible Oils

Dr. David Pink (St. FX University, Physics) runs models on ACENET computers in his research of food, including edible oils and the search for healthy alternatives to unhealthy trans fats, the…

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Predicting the Influence of the Ocean on Machines and Structures

Andrew Gerber (University of New Brunswick, Mechanical Engineering) uses ACENET’s network to study how tidal power turbines would respond to massive hydraulic forces in the Bay of Fundy, and how…

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Acadia Professor Uses ACENET to Unlock Tidal Power Secrets

Richard Karsten (Acadia University, Mathematics and Statistics) uses ACENET’s system to process terabytes of data and create a model to predict tides in the Bay of Fundy, supporting tidal power…

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St. F.X. Scientist Uses ACENET Network to Study Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Dave Risk (St. FX University, Earth Sciences) used ACENET’s computers and guidance to model studies of CO2 emissions from soil, and how those inflows and outflows contribute to climate change. He…

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Advanced Computing Helps Scientists Track Air Pollution

Randall Martin (Dalhousie University, Atmospheric Science) uses ACENET’s and Compute Canada’s technologies, along with NASA satellites, to infer long-term concentrations of ground-level fine…

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Using Computers to Make Better Computers

Martin Plumer (Memorial University, Physics) and John Whitehead (Memorial University, Physical Oceanography) use ACENET’s computers to research magnetic hard drives, nano-magnets and the stability…

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Unlocking the Secrets of a Vital Plant Hormone

Jason Clyburne (St. Mary’s University, Chemistry) led a team that used the ACENET Data Cave to better visualize ethylene formation, which could have major practical applications such as better…

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Testing Flexible Marine Structures; A Vital Study for the Ocean Industry

Erkan Cakir and Anup Radhakrishnan (Memorial, University, Engineering) used ACENET’s computers to design complex tests of flexible structures in harsh marine environments with powerful currents and…

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Redesigning Halifax with Data Cave Technology

John Charles (Halifax Regional Municipality) used the ACENET Data Cave at Saint Mary’s University to visualize and analyze traffic flow and help design a roundabout as part of a massive…

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Fixing Everything from Bones to Airplanes

Tsanka Todorova (Dalhousie University Chemistry) uses Compute Canada’s high-powered computers to run molecular dynamic simulations to understand the atomic structures of new materials with…

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